Hesper already decided to give up on this man when her heart went cold in the past, but she didn’t know why the moment pained hit her. Her mind kept going back to him.
She remembered how he changed his arrogant gaze at the aquarium like he was looking at her as an equal and was gentle as if protecting a flower in the wind.
“Hesper, give me another chance to make it up to you.”
Hesper’s tears started falling like pearls from a necklace that snapped. The woman next to her frantically wiped her tears away. The noises outside faded away and Hesper cried there in silence.
Hesper didn’t have a lot of time left to go down memory lane. She couldn’t repay Matthew for what he did for her, so she tried her best to quickly get into her role as Ms. Lane and start helping with managing the company.
All these memories that she had suppressed came back out.
The first time she saw Rickard was when Hesper was brought out from the orphanage by Ernest.
The government-run orphanage wasn’t a gr
